<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Hello web service users,</div><div><br></div><div>New versions of the DMC's web service Fetch scripts have been released and are available here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.iris.edu/ws/wsclients/">http://www.iris.edu/ws/wsclients/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>The FetchBulkData script has been made more robust by breaking large requests into groups and restarting the download of a group when the connection has been interrupted. These features combined allow FetchBulkData to better handle very large data requests and to recover automatically from network connectivity problems or service interruptions.</div><div><br></div></div><div>The web page now also includes client usage documentation with examples of usage and description of key features. </div><div><br></div><div>Each script has improved documentation, minor fixes and improved reporting that will help the DMC and users of these scripts diagnose problems.</div><div><br></div><div>Users of these scripts are encouraged to keep their copy up to date.</div><div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div>web services team</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Apr 20, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Chad Trabant wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Hello webservice users,<br><br>The DMC has updated it's ws-bulkdataselect service: <a href="http://www.iris.edu/ws/bulkdataselect/">http://www.iris.edu/ws/bulkdataselect/</a><br><br>The new version adds two optional query parameters:<br><br><b>minimumlength</b><br> Enforce minimum segment length (seconds).<br> Only time-series segments of this length or longer will be returned.<br><br><b>longestonly</b><br> If specified, only the longest continuous segment for each channel is<br> returned.<br><br></div><div><div>These new parameters can be used to reduce or avoid receiving data containing gaps.</div><div><br></div><div>The command line FetchBulkData client script that uses this service to request data has been updated with options to specify these new parameters, the latest client scripts are available here:</div><div><a href="http://www.iris.edu/ws/wsclients/">http://www.iris.edu/ws/wsclients/</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>Usage details: like the quality parameter, the two new parameters may be specified in the main selection list or separately as post parameters.</div><div><br></div><div>For example, this selection will return only the longest data, that is at least one day (86400 seconds) long:<br><br>minimumlength 86400.0<br>longestonly<br>TA A25A -- BHZ 2010-084T00:00:00 2010-091T00:00:00<br>TA A25A -- BHE 2010-084T00:00:00 2010-091T00:00:00</div><div><br></div><div>regards</div><div>Web services team.<br></div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>